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dhaixi to suddenly die, to find oneself dead, to drop dead

next: vdars impossible or unexpected dust that has collected on covered surfaces or in some other place where one cannot fathom how it got there

tenza butterfly, moth, lepidopteran

next: skran a pterosaur or large flying reptile

if you have six tones (like Cantonese and several Khmer languages), three phonemes, two of them vowels and allow for long vowels, germinated consonants, and the both possible diphthongs, lets see... CCVVCC, is therefore the maximal syllable, and there are two values for each C (q or NULL) and 3 for ...

Does anyone know where the term "glossing" came from? I know it ties into the use of the word "gloss" in phrases such as "to gloss over something," but does anyone know how the term came to be used linguistically? Bit of a random question, but yes. its actually older a...

So far, since all you've really posted is the phonology, that's all I can really comment on. Like others have said the choice in sound contrasts seems rather arbitrary, which honestly, is fine, English is like that, the rest reminds me of Japanese Phonology, the two pitch accents is kind of like the...

Next: sēibreita ['seɪːbɾeɪta] story, tale Géarthnuns: séíbréts [se.i'bɾets] folktale, fable Next: nggasels [ŋ'gasɛls] n. tisane, infusion, tea ( not made from tea leaves ) gasël(a) tisane, infusion, tea, tincture, extract, decoction, spirit nggasels [ŋ'gasɛls] n. tisane, infusion, tea ( not made fr...

ëdron "bow"

ksas "explosive," "surprising"

next: baiduk "scam," "racket," "ploy"

next: drak ( not to do with dragons or undead things please ) This from the person who feeds me "bear" for "bröns". [xD] fair enough, but I must preface this by saying I'm in this thread because I'm bad at coming up with these and need help. how about tall dark foreign men, or a...

Lao Kou wrote:

Ambrisio wrote:Next: [ɭɐʋɐɭika:] - a noun

dirt road

Next: bröns [bɾœ̃s] a noun

A Bear

next: drak a noun or adjective (not to do with dragons or undead things please)

well, apart from the orthography being atrocious That's a matter of opinion, I happen to like my orthography, what exactly about it do you dislike? Your reading of your language is articulate thank you! it was alot of work *using a circumflex for /ja/ is unnecessary complication of the orthography ...

Orthography and Prounciation : so I realize it's not easy to read Rhûnido, even with all the information on how various characters are pronounced, because there are a couple things that weren't mentioned, so I'll go over those and some other topics in Rhûnido's orthography. Rhûnido, as you can tell...

Today I recorded myself reading the entire Babel text in Rhûnido, and edited it, and I still feel like I sound like crap :( my pronunciation is just horrid, but it gives you an idea of what its supposed to sound like, and I wasn't about to IPA the whole dang thing O.e oh! and I made some macaroni, y...

DesEsseintes wrote:Next: So far I've got:

dnīm ['dniːm] v.tr.
1. to pull, drag
2. to tire so. out
3. (medicine) to work, have an effect
4. ???

to draw a map of something, to explain, to guide

next: dnar /ᵈnäɹ/ a noun or adjective

Length contrast in some plosives (/t tː k kː/). However a squence /XPː/ surfaces as [XːP], in other words long plosives lengthen the preceding sound (be it a vowel or continuant) and remain "short" themselves. / Yay or nay? An unequivocal yay to that one! It's a nice feature, and makes me...

Here's my conlang, Rhûnido:

buro kre, pilas kasó terát; cendis bat-tarakó pronunciation
tree around girl run-PAST and ball foot-strike-PAST
"the girl ran around a tree and kicked a ball"

(7 words, 15 syllables, agglutinating/synthetic)

lioxa /li'oɣɐ/ "citrus tree"

next: glofsor "port," "sea-side town"

Ambrisio wrote:asteroid belt

Next:
[kɭɐpo:ɾɐɳɐm] - a nominalized form of a verb (like connection<-connect, or reflection<-reflect)
The verb form is [kɭɐpo:ɾɐti].

to march

next: kalas a noun (human gender)

vanvaxas /vän'väɣɐs/ "airport"
from van- "sky" and vaxas "gateway"

next: baldric

madras teacher

next: kimpun a citrus fruit

The version you've seen so far has been one derived by humans to match our speech patterns, with consonants and vowels and whatnot I highly doubt the human version would be even close to mutually intelligible with the Original language spoken by the Waheluba(I assume thats what they're called based...